Shade holder



' Feb. 12 1924.

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1,483,264 L. w. ANDERSEN SHADE HOLDER Filed Feb. 6. 1922 Patented Feb.12, I924.

STATES LAURITZ w. ANDERSEN, or WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SHADE HOLDER.

Application filed February 6, 1922 Serial in). 534,458.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURITZ W- ANDER- snN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in ShadeHolders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawmgs.

This invention relates generally to shade holders and more particularlyto a device for holding a silk or parchment shade in a downward orsuspended position around an incandescent lamp.

The object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly cheap andsimple form of holder which can be quickly and easily attached to ordetached from the ordinary lamp socket and which will securely hold theshade after the same has once been connected thereto.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterfrom which one shade can be quickly and easily removed and another shadesubstituted when desired.

With these various objects in view the invention consists in the novelfeatures of construction hereinafter fully described and pointed out inthe claims. 7

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a viewshowing the practical application of my invention, the shade holderbeing shown in elevation and the shade in section; Fig. 2 is an invertedperspective of the device; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the shadeholder and shade carrying frame.

In the practical embodiment of my invention I employ a collar 10preferably formed with an inturned flange 10 said collar being slottedat 10 to provide a plurality of resilient members 10 and this slottedportion is grooved as shown at 10 in order to receive the bead of theordinary incandescent lamp socket.

Surrounding this resilient collar which constitutes a socket receivingmember, is a sheet metal band 11 flanged as shown, that is, one portion11 of said band being vertical and the lower portion 11 thereofobliquely flared thereby providing an annular shoulder upon which theinner ring 12 of the frame of the shade is adapted to rest, the outerring 13 of the shade frame being connected directly to the shade 14 andthe outer The band -1-1isalso connected to the collar 10 by means ofright. angular shaped wire arms 16. The upper portion of the band 11 isformed with a plurality of integral tongues 17, said tongues beingpunched from the vertical portion of the band and h are adapted to beturned down over the inner wire ring of the shade frame as most clearlyshown, thereby securely connecting the shade to the holder. 7

d When it is desired to connect the shade to the lamp in the positionindicated, it is only necessary to snap the collar over the lower end ofthe socket and the connection of the shade to the socket is complete.

When it is desired to remove the shade from the lamp itis only necessaryto spring the collar away from the lamp socket, it being understood ofcourse, that the incandescent lamp is removed from the socket when theshade holder is being attached to or de tached from the said socket.

When it is desired to remove the shade from the holder, it is onlynecessary to bend back the tongues so as to release the inner ring ofthe frame, and the frame can then be disconnected from the band and anew shade and frame substituted and connected when desired.

It will thus be seen that I provide an eX- and arms connecting saidcollar and band,

thereto,-sa-id band having bendable tongues punched therefrom, a ringconstituting a part of a shade frame and adapted to rest upon theflanged band and be engaged by said tongues.

4. A device of the kind described comprising a socket receiving member,a band having a vertical portion and an outwardly extending portionproviding a supporting shoulder, one portion of said band having tonguespunched therefrom, and arms connectlng the socket recelving member withsaid band.

5. The combination with a socket receiv- 15 ing member, of a bandcomprising a vertical portion and an outwardly flared portion,

the vertical portion having integral tongues an inner ring andconnecting arms, the inner ring of said frame being adapted to rest uponthe band, the tongues of said band being adapted for engagement with theinner ring of the frame, to connect the same to the band.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature.

LAURITZ W. ANDERSEN.

